• Nominated for an Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of East Anglia (2005)
• Nominated for an Award for Excellence in Teaching. University of East Anglia (2004)
• Since retirement module organizer and lecturer for Parasitology (BIO-3C19) (1993 - 2007)
• Invited lecture to Sixth Form students at Milfield School (1997)

•  Elected Reader Emeritus (2005)
• Elected Honorary Life Member of the Helminthological Society of Washington. Bestowed in recognition of significant contributions to Helminthology. Limited to no more than 10 living parasitologists worldwide (2000)
• Elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (1999)
• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Parasitology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (1990 - 1991) (Royal Society/University of Queensland)
• Visiting Fellow, Seto Marine Biological Laboratory (Kyoto University) Japan (Royal Society)(1990)
• Promoted to Reader (1981)
• Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Parasitology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Royal Society)(1975 – 1976)
• D.Sc, University of Birmingham (1974)
• Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia (1963 – 1981)

• Keynote address: “Entobdella soleae - pointers to the future”. 4th International Symposium on Monogenea, University of Queensland, Australia, followed by presentation of Honorary Life Membership of the Helminthological Society of Washington (see Career Outline) (2001)
• Invited lecture: “A Millennium of Platyhelminths - a personal selection of milestones of flatworm research”. International Conference on Interrelationships of the Platyhelminthes”, Linnean Society, London (1999).
• Invited lecture: 50th Anniversary and 18th Congress of the Polish Parasitological Society, Olsztyn, Poland (1998)
• Invited lecture: Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1996)
• Invited Lecture: Mansoura University, Egypt (1996)
• Invited Lecture: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA (1985)
• Invited Lecture: Molteno Institute, University of Cambridge (1984)
• Invited Lecture: Workshop on the Biology of Monogeneans at the 3rd European Multicolloquium of Parasitology, University of Cambridge (1980)
• Author of two books: “Parasitism and the Platyhelminths”, Chapman & Hall, 1998; “Leeches, Lice and Lampreys. A Natural history of Skin and Gill Parasites of Fishes”, Springer, 2004.

Current Research Projects

• Descriptions of new species of capsalid and microbothriid monogeneans from the skin of Australian stingrays and rays (with Ian Whittington, South Australian Museum and The University of Adelaide)
• The roles of self insemination and cross insemination in the reproductive biology of capsalid monogeneans (With Ian Whittington)
• Nanomechanics of the protein in the adhesive used by Entobdella soleae for temporary attachment of the head to the host (with Anika Mostaert, Nanoscale Function Group, University of Dublin)
• Research for a book on parasites.